Hello all,
I am sending here a reminder of the previous call for grandchildren of Holocaust survivors and their non-Holocaust related Jewish peers to participate in a research study. We are still looking for more participants to fill out the survey described below in my blog entry from June 23.
Thanks very much!
Irit
Dear Friends,
I am reaching out to you again in the hope that you will be willing to assist in a study that looks at the responses of the grandchildren of Holocaust survivors and their non-Holocaust related Jewish peers to the October 7 Hamas attack and the events that ensued since. It is a particularly important to understand the impact of these events on the young generation of Jewish people (many of whom are parents to the next generation), as they are encountering a very different environment in the USA and Canada than the one before October 7.
This study is conducted in collaboration with my esteemed colleague Prof. Amit Shrira from Bar-Ilan University, whose contribution to the empirical research literature about Holocaust descendants is invaluable.
The link to the questionnaire can be found here.
We thank you profoundly for your time and input to the study, and hope you can also disseminate the request to all your contacts:
Warmly,
Irit Felsen, PhD
Irit, I think I filled this survey out when you first asked. Please let me know.
Bonnie Stein, The Villages, FL
Dear Bonnie,
Thank you so much for your willingness to help in the study! There was a previous one, not long ago, that examined the reactions of the second generation. This study is aiming to examine the responses and reactions of the grandchildren of survivors, so if you are 2G, it is not for you, but I would appreciate very much if you could try to disseminate it to 3G individuals and to other young Jewish people who are their peers but not related to the Holocaust.
The world has changed so much for all of us since October 7, and this needs to be documented in hard data, as there are so many who try to minimize the effects of the rise in antisemitism on many of us.
Warmly,
Irit